A DVI driver for R
Paul R. Murrell · TUGboat · 2025
As a LA T E X user for 15 years, I have suffered from two problems related to the installation of L A T E X and maintenance of packages: 1) The full versions of common L A T E X distributions are often too big, whereas the smaller basic versions often lack packages that I frequently use; 2) It is tedious to figure out which missing packages to install by reading the error log from the L A T E X compilation.TinyTeX (https://yihui.name/tinytex/) is my attempt to address these problems.The basic version of Tiny-TeX is relatively small (150MB on Linux/macOS when installed), and you only install additional packages if/when you actually need them.Further, if you are an R user, the installation of missing packages can be automatic when you compile L A T E X or R Markdown documents through the R package tinytex.